From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Cochran Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement leftpad syscall Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 08:56:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20160401065639.GA28596@localhost.localdomain> References: <1459463613-32473-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <1459463613-32473-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1459463613-32473-2-git-send-email-richard-/L3Ra7n9ekc@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Richard Weinberger Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, David Gstir List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:33:32AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > From: David Gstir > > Implement the leftpad() system call such that userspace, > especially node.js applications, can in the near future directly > use it and no longer depend on fragile npm packages. > > Signed-off-by: David Gstir > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger > --- > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 + > include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 + > kernel/sys.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + > 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+) This is okay as far as it goes, but you need to add the other archs and put the relevant maintainers onto CC. Thanks, Richard